"Steady! Shield wall erection! ”

Oscar shouted and ordered all the soldiers behind him to put their shields above their heads, while the soldiers in the first row held their shields to their chests to ward off the overwhelming rain of arrows. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Brutus saw Antony trying to build a siege network and trap himself on the high ground, he could no longer bear it and sent a legion to storm the construction site of Antony's construction, and the infantry of Antony's 11th Legion had to temporarily erect a shield wall to stabilize the defensive line, while their comrades behind them, under the rain of arrows like flying locusts, did their best to build the fortifications.

"Steady! Javelin ready! ”

Centurion Oscar shouted at the front line, and in front of them, the sky was full of dust, and the enemy's arrow rain had stopped, and in its place, the collective movement of the legionary phalanx. Antony's infantry defense was so solid that Brutus did not dare to use his cavalry to attack the Roman legion's defense head-on, which would be more than worth the loss, so Brutus directly sent an infantry phalanx to try to crush Antony's XI legion, which was organizing the battle, because half of their soldiers were engaged in excavation work here. Less than half of Brutus' forces were pulled.

Immediately, before the infantry of both sides engaged, a dense stream of javelins was thrown, and between the two rows of Roman infantry, a dense and terrifying rain of javelins was formed. Both sides were trained Roman soldiers, the tactics were exactly the same, the round of javelin throwing before the attack was bloody and terrifying, because the javelin throwing could not be completely organized to lock the defensive line, a round of spears were thrown, on both sides of the front, there were many soldiers falling, and the scene of powerful spears penetrating the body abounded.

Some soldiers were even more horrified by being shot through the head, the whole face was blurred with flesh and blood, and they fell to the ground completely without breathing, while some soldiers were pierced through the thighs by spears, and fell to the ground groaning in pain, the flesh and blood stuck together, and the blood showed a black coagulated shape. It can be said that panic spread simultaneously in the positions of both sides, however, the centurions of both sides nevertheless gave the order to attack.

Blocking the first javelin attack, the intact Roman infantry began to charge each other.

The soldiers in the front row wrestled with each other, each shielding his body with his shield, stabbing his short sword out from behind the shield and striking each other in vital parts. In the early spring of the northern Greek battlefield, the sand and dust were thick, and the entire front was full of the sound of iron armor and heavy shields hitting each other, as well as the crisp sound of the short swords intersecting. The low roars and roars of the soldiers were mixed with screams of pain, and the whole battlefield was in chaos.

At the same time, the recruits of the Eleventh Legion endured tremendous psychological pressure, continuing to build fences and trenches in the backfield, sweating in the sun, but not daring to relax at all, because everyone knew that the line of defense they were digging now was likely to save their lives next.

Oscar swung his sword and severed the arm of an Eastern mercenary, and then bloodily and brutally unloaded his other arm, and in the agony of the other party's screams, Oscar's short sword stabbed into his throat, and the blood suddenly gushed out, splashing on the centurion's face, forming a circle of scarlet blood.

But this is the battlefield.

When more enemy soldiers surrounded him, Oscar still fought many people, the large square shield blocked left and right, the short sword stabbed back and forth, and the blood of the enemies around him stained the old centurion's body one by one. Then, with a piercing whistle, the hundred-man squad of the Eleventh Legion began to advance on the corpses of the enemy. The ground was littered with the corpses of the infantry of the mercenary army of Brutus, arms and lower limbs everywhere, and bare entrails covered the battlefield.

However, this was only part of the regional battlefield, and while Antony and Octavius were repairing and building siege networks, Cventus and Cassius also sent troops to attack the site where Octavian and Lepida were building.

Appis had already returned to the battlefield four times, and before the blood was dry, there was another battle and he had to return to the battle line.

"Crane, take your people, fill that gap, quick!"

Apis swung his sword at one of the Thracian infantrymen who was charging towards him, stabbing the tribesman in the cheek, and the Thracian infantryman was pierced in the face, and he fell to his knees and died without saying a word. Then, Apis yelled and gave an urgent order to Klein, because not far from his right, Cassius's large army was about to break the legion's defenses, and Appis hired not many soldiers this time, only a brigade of fifteen hundred men, and Cassius had obviously thrown an entire legion into the battle.

After receiving the order, Crane angrily slaughtered towards the gap, with nearly a hundred soldiers, in this blood-soaked land, there were not too many arrows, stone bullets, and only the occasional spear throwing, because the ancient Romans preferred and were better at this kind of bloody hand-to-hand combat and fighting.

By the time Klein arrived, the last of the three lines of defense on the front line was now the last weak one, and Cassius's main force had already squeezed Appis's soldiers to the edge of the trench. And the fortifications behind him seem to have not been built yet.

"Triangle formation!"

Crane roared and rushed forward, pulled out a spear that pierced into the corpse on the ground, threw it with all his might, and pulled it out after stabbing one of the Cassius legion infantrymen in the shoulder, blood splattered everywhere, while the seventy veterans behind him quickly discharged the triangular formation and cut into the battlefield, the soldiers on the left and right protected the pointed troops in the middle to raid, so that the entire hundred-man team could rush to the forefront of the elite veterans can rest assured that they can raid without worrying about interceptions from both wings.

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After a whole day of fighting in the mist, until the end of the evening battle, the troops sent by Brutus and Kventus failed to break through the fortifications of the encirclement, leaving thousands of mutilated bodies in the land that had been fought. They were stabbed with javelins, spears, or short swords, and their entrails and severed arms were scattered all over the place.

After today, Brutus and Kventus not only failed to break through the siege network built by Anthony and Yada, but made the entire siege network more complete. Kventus knew that if the construction was carried out with the same efficiency as Antony and Octavian's army, in less than a week, the siege network would be completed and linked together, and the soldiers in the barracks would be worried about food and water problems without Antony's troops, and their morale would be demoralized. This is a serious problem, and countermeasures must be discussed immediately.

On the side of the Triumvirate, there was also a problem, the news of the Germanic invasion reached the front line of the Greek battlefield, and after a day of fighting, Antony, Lepida and Octavian had to sit down again to discuss the security of the northern part of the empire......